#GameInAWeek: Sultan's Gems

Sultan’s Gems is a simple Match 3 game in which the player tries to achieve a high score within a certain number of moves by matching similar pieces. The project was created for educational purposes as part of James’ #GameInAWeek challenge and is released freely under an MIT license. It may be of interest to those looking for a starting point in creating a Match 3 game in Unity for mobile. Source

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What’s Included

Level data is stored as customs assets. Board shape, pieces to initially place, points per stone and which stones are valid can all be assigned in the editor.

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Conclusion

Although the match 3 market is over saturated and these games require considerable amount of game balancing, from an implementation point of view, Sultan’s Gems is is a simple yet functioning match 3 game. This prototype could easily be extended to form a full game.